His unpopularity led to his own assassination and played into the downfall of Tsar Nicholas II.‌ The wealthy GOP businessman Marc Hanna was often portrayed in cartoons as the master puppeteer behind ...

When the riots broke out, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. It ...

From the moment he was crowned Tsar, his reign was an utter catastrophe. Trump-appointed judge rejects administration’s ‘emergency’ claim on birthright citizenship A rare split opened ...

Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...

Editor: Am I the only one who perceives more than a faint resemblance between Elon Musk and Gregory Rasputin, the charlatan “holy man” whose malevolent influence over Czar Nicholas II helped ...

Being a part of Czarist Russia, the Tolstoy family left the country in 1917, following the Bolshevik revolution, when Czar Nicholas II was eliminated along with his family. While Lev himself had d ...

It's also been long-accustomed to hosting kings, writers, aristocrats, stars and tsars as its guests – Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Shah of Iran, Tsar Nicholas II, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alfred ...

In a meeting with Kallol Bhattacherjee, Daniil said though the Tolstoy family left Russia in 1917, following the Bolshevik revolution when Czar Nicholas II was eliminated along with his family ...

Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit ... because it has the capacity to ask us what being English means. Nicholas Hytner’s production, running at the Bridge Theatre with Bridgerton star ...

Alice Marie Johnson, who was appointed as "pardon czar" by President Donald Trump, explained the key differences between Trump and former President Biden's commutations of prison sentences in an ...

Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the late tsarevich but also to accommodate the religious needs of the city's growing ...